Lead Cloud Engineer Jobs

Lead Cloud Engineer
UK

The median Lead Cloud Engineer salary in the UK is £107,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 651 770 775
Rank change year-on-year +119 +5 +330
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Cloud Engineer 54 127 202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.098% 0.13% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.14% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 49 63 50
10th Percentile £78,550 £48,829 £65,343
25th Percentile £95,000 £68,125 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £89,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.79% +11.25% -
75th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £87,500
90th Percentile - £115,000 £92,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £95,000 £70,000 £72,000
% change year-on-year +35.71% -2.78% +2.41%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 49,982 93,747 91,844
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.62% 94.66% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 26,989 67,111 57,934
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £74,014 £71,250 £80,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%

Lead Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Lead Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Cloud Engineer in the UK

Lead Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Cloud Engineer.

Salary trend for Lead Cloud Engineer in the UK

Lead Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Cloud Engineer in the UK

Lead Cloud Engineer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Cloud Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 15 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +137 47 £110,000 +12.24% 8
London +101 32 £110,000 - 7
UK excluding London +109 22 £95,000 +35.71% 3
South West +125 11 £95,000 +22.58%
Scotland +60 7 £95,000 +26.67% 1
Work from Home +109 3 £110,000 +37.50% 3
North of England +47 3 £69,750 -0.36%
South East +93 1 £110,000 +86.44% 2
Yorkshire +58 1 £64,000 -14.67%
North West -4 1 - -
North East - 1 £75,500 -

Lead Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 15 May 2025, Lead Cloud Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Lead Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (53.70%) AWS
2 28 (51.85%) Kubernetes
3 25 (46.30%) Linux
4 22 (40.74%) Go
5 21 (38.89%) Cloud Native
5 21 (38.89%) Software Engineering
5 21 (38.89%) Distributed Systems
6 20 (37.04%) Legacy Code
6 20 (37.04%) C
6 20 (37.04%) C++
6 20 (37.04%) Rust
7 19 (35.19%) Firewall
8 16 (29.63%) Network Design
9 15 (27.78%) VPN
9 15 (27.78%) Mentoring
10 14 (25.93%) Finance
10 14 (25.93%) Cloud Security
11 13 (24.07%) Roadmaps
11 13 (24.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (22.22%) Threat Modelling
12 12 (22.22%) CISM
12 12 (22.22%) CISSP
12 12 (22.22%) Network Security
12 12 (22.22%) Accessibility
12 12 (22.22%) Technology Transformation
12 12 (22.22%) Strategic Roadmap
12 12 (22.22%) NCSC
12 12 (22.22%) NIST
13 11 (20.37%) Python
14 10 (18.52%) Terraform

Lead Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 29 (53.70%) AWS
2 9 (16.67%) Azure
3 5 (9.26%) Serverless
4 4 (7.41%) Entra ID
4 4 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (7.41%) OneDrive
4 4 (7.41%) Power Automate
5 3 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.85%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (1.85%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (1.85%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.85%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 19 (35.19%) Firewall
2 15 (27.78%) VPN
3 12 (22.22%) Network Security
4 4 (7.41%) DHCP
4 4 (7.41%) DNS
4 4 (7.41%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.70%) IPv4
5 2 (3.70%) OSPF
5 2 (3.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.85%) Big Data
1 1 (1.85%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Git
General
1 14 (25.93%) Finance
2 4 (7.41%) Legal
2 4 (7.41%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.70%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.85%) Advertising
4 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.70%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (1.85%) .NET
2 1 (1.85%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.85%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.85%) GraphQL
2 1 (1.85%) OpenAPI
2 1 (1.85%) RESTful
2 1 (1.85%) SOAP
2 1 (1.85%) Swagger
2 1 (1.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (38.89%) Cloud Native
1 21 (38.89%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (37.04%) Legacy Code
3 4 (7.41%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (7.41%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.70%) Hedge funds
4 2 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.70%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 25 (46.30%) Linux
2 2 (3.70%) CentOS
2 2 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (38.89%) Software Engineering
2 16 (29.63%) Network Design
3 15 (27.78%) Mentoring
4 14 (25.93%) Cloud Security
5 13 (24.07%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (24.07%) Roadmaps
6 12 (22.22%) Strategic Roadmap
6 12 (22.22%) Technology Transformation
6 12 (22.22%) Threat Modelling
7 10 (18.52%) CI/CD
8 8 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
9 7 (12.96%) DevOps
10 6 (11.11%) Task Automation
11 5 (9.26%) Containerisation
11 5 (9.26%) Cybersecurity
12 4 (7.41%) Agile
12 4 (7.41%) Identity Management
12 4 (7.41%) Mobile Device Management
12 4 (7.41%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 22 (40.74%) Go
2 20 (37.04%) C
2 20 (37.04%) C++
2 20 (37.04%) Rust
3 11 (20.37%) Python
4 8 (14.81%) Bash
5 7 (12.96%) PowerShell
6 4 (7.41%) SQL
7 3 (5.56%) C#
7 3 (5.56%) Java
7 3 (5.56%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.70%) R
9 1 (1.85%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 12 (22.22%) CISM
1 12 (22.22%) CISSP
2 5 (9.26%) SC Cleared
2 5 (9.26%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (22.22%) Accessibility
1 12 (22.22%) NCSC
1 12 (22.22%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (51.85%) Kubernetes
2 10 (18.52%) Terraform
3 5 (9.26%) Ansible
4 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (7.41%) SCCM
4 4 (7.41%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.70%) Grafana
5 2 (3.70%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.70%) Puppet
6 1 (1.85%) Argo
Vendors
1 4 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.70%) Oracle
2 2 (3.70%) Planview
3 1 (1.85%) Cisco